After a brief hiatus that seemed closer to an eternity, I'm pleased to report that the dot is back and all is good. A big "Thank You!" goes out to Chris McDonough and Jim Fulton of Zope Corporation, Chris Withers of Squishdot fame, and the wonderful Zope community at #zope for their excellent support throughout this matter.

We appear to have mysteriously experienced a minor, though troublesome, corruption of our main database file. Fortunately, thanks to some Zope DB transaction magic and a not-so-recent good backup, we were able to recover, with zero data loss, all 464 articles and 18965 comments (as of this reading). And while we did lose about two days worth of precious posting time during the read-only phase, I'm confident you guys will push us ever closer to the 20,000 (quality) comment mark by the time KDE3 is out.

Subliminal: You perceive the dot to be better and faster than ever before.

It's a term from Fandom. It's an all purpose, gender neutral, religion agnostic, non-blasphemous term. Many of the terms in use on the internet that date way back come from Fandom, particularly those on usenet.

Maybe a static page at http://dot.kde.org/ when Slashdot hits, containing all the actual info that 99% of the visitors are looking for, and then a link "This way to the dot" might help. Of course, that implies that someone with full access gets there within a reasonable amount of time after /. posts the link.

Quite often, people just follow the link to read a static press release or something. Some thought might be given to this in anticipation of 3.0. As much as I hate a splash page to a site, a static splash with information shielding the dot itself for people who are interested in more detailed information would probably be a good idea. Traffic's gonna get hard-core heavy shortly.

But the Dot hasn't. On a few occasions... and the way it goes down is generally with the front page displaying (about 50%-70% of the time), and the rest of the site just not coming up. I'm just saying that if all the information that people are looking for is on a static home page, rather than having them click though to the article, it would alleviate load.

Don't get me wrong - the Dot is one of my favorite sites, and I like the way Zope works. I think it's perfectly fine, but I've been here when /. starts pouring traffic onto the site... or rather I *haven't* been here, because the page just times out.

01. April 2002 - Project closed? After vehemently led discussions on the core mailinglist about the break of with development of the technical pioneer project Gideon alias KDevelop3 in favour of implementing all features in KDevelop2 the team is finally splitted. Some developers has already left the team. The development is stopped and a well-known software company has offered to buy all software licenses of KDevelop.